Jens-Ulrich Davids
Biography
Jens-Ulrich Davids was born in Hamburg in 1942. He studied English, German and cultural studies in Hamburg, Bangor and Tübingen. Until 2004 he worked first as a German teacher at the Institute of Technology in Madras (Chennai) and later as an academic advisor in English studies at the University of Oldenburg. Today he lives as a free-floating gray head in Bremen. He is married and has a daughter. Moments in Namibia is after Raked out of the dark and My nights with Odysseus, his third volume of poetry. his novel Frankenstein's heirs was published in 2012. He has also published short stories in various anthologies, most recently in Death in the Ratskeller: Evil beakers in Bremen (2016).
Davids is a member of the wording group and a board member of the Bremer Literaturkontor.
Last Released
The Guru Who Doesn't Talk: Treasure Hunts in India
A seemingly harmless trip to southern India turns into a wild treasure hunt for ten men and women from Germany: What is the secret of the oil painting that Jonas is supposed to smuggle back to India for his then lover Ina?
In three parts, Davids takes his readers and characters through India in search of the truth, both related to the mysterious painting and to questions about the wisdom of life.
